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Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News Biometrics from A-Z… Microsoft has given Yahoo! no hope of a higher takeover price, and said it is ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo! maintains "unrealistic expectations" of a better deal. [25 Apr 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study Inspector David Edge, who is coordinating the camera trial, told silicon.com: "Once the officer's finished his tour of duty or taken his prisoner back to the police station he can upload those recordings to a central server.silicon.com's A to Z of... [12 Mar 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology... [23 Apr 2008]
Google CIO to join digital music realm
News Biometrics from A-Z… Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving Google to become president of EMI's digital unit, according to sources. A Google spokesman confirmed Merrill is leaving but said he could not confirm the other information. [03 Apr 2008]
Security Dynamics eyes smartcard firms
News Coviello is looking to buy into four specific areas: technologies for loading applications onto smartcards, password management for online purchasing, biometrics and personalisation. Secure ecommerce firm, Security Dynamics is preparing to go on a... [07 May 1999]
Open source: UK dragging its heels
News Biometrics from A-Z… The UK is lagging in the use of open source, even though it is now established as the best way to produce and consume software, according to speakers at the Open Source Forum, sponsored by Red Hat and its partners, in London. [15 May 2008]
XP SP3 starts endless reboot for some AMD PCs
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3... [14 May 2008]
This time in '99: Security Dynamics eyes smartcard firms
News Coviello is looking to buy into four specific areas: technologies for loading applications onto smartcards, password management for online purchasing, biometrics and personalisation. This is how the original story broke on 8 May, 1999: [08 May 2000]
Protecting your ID: All the commentary and analysis
Comment Biometrics: Eyes, ears, face or voice? Leader: Who do you think you are? Where we're coming from. ID theft: Who's getting hold of your personal data? Will Sturgeon looks at online threats - and whether your dustbin is a much more dangerous place. [02 Jan 2004]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Biometrics from A-Z… Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. Rich Sands, Sun's group manager for developer marketing, confirmed on... [28 Apr 2008]
G8 nations paralysed by indecision on cybercrime
News These include smartcards, biometrics and IP security specifications. After three days of talking, the G8 countries have failed to propose any concrete plan of action to tackle cybercrime. But delegates at the Cybercriminality conference in Paris... [18 May 2000]
AMD chips into business market
News Biometrics from A-Z… AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. On Monday the chipmaker launched what it is calling its Business Class platform, previously... [29 Apr 2008]
Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner
News Biometrics from A-Z… In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service (SaaS). [07 Apr 2008]
UK should 'abandon' software market to China
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Galileo CRM Biometrics Encryption UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China this year fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low... [14 May 2008]
